On Wed, 2003-03-26 at 06:36, Haines Brown wrote: > I also did very well with RH7.3 and previous versions of RedHat going > back to 6.2, but 8.0 never worked out for me.
Don't feel badly - I purchased RH 8.0 "just because" it's been my habit of purchasing the new packs when they came out - but was blown away at the lack of ability to configure/control the environment - RH 7.3 was highly configurable and very stable; after trying to "tweak" RH 8.0 (on several installations, several different configurations) I ran consistently into data corruption (on top of the lousy configurability) and went back to RH 7.3 because I couldn't afford to spend the time mucking around with an obviously "thrown together" distro that was competing at the time with Mandrake for it's "end user friendliness" - sad marketing tactics there. I had put such high hopes on 8.1 (and subsequently the 8.2) and had already informed customers of such as well - but now, with the "Version Scheme Change", my faith has been rather bruised, and that of several of my "key" customers has been shaken. I had truly hoped for stability and the ability to give concrete and reliable service to my customers - but with this rapid move through versions, that is eroding (or has eroded already) - and I'm going to have to change my business plan to suit. It is too bad that RedHat couldn't survey the public prior to this - which I see as an arrogant gesture on their part. SURPRISE! We're going to do THIS instead! Yeah, I'm really jumping for joy now. > I was looking foward to 8.2, but because of my problems, thought I'd > even venture an 8.1 upgrade. But I'm sure to be shy of 9.0! It's nice to say "shy", but I'm actually devastated and agitated beyond the point of being nice - so I won't give out my cash so quickly or my time on testing it neither. I'm researching another venue because the instability of version releases is becoming more of a marketing scam than a technology move. > Since I prefer to configure files from the keyboard rather than gui > configuration utilities, I'm considering debian. However, I'll first > try gentoo and move to debian if gentoo overwhelms me. Well, I have this STRANGE feeling that RH is going to become more and more GUI based, less and less configurable as far as desktop environments go, and less friendly for those of us that like to customise our systems to suit our needs. -- Wed Mar 26 06:30:01 EST 2003 06:30:01 up 4 days, 17:17, 4 users, load average: 0.11, 0.16, 0.25 ------------------------------------------------------------------ | __ __ | kuhn media australia | | / ,, /| |'-. | http://kma.0catch.com | | .\__/ || | | |=================================| | _ / `._ \|_|_.-' | stephen kuhn | | | / \__.`=._) (_ | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | |/ ._/ |"""""""""| | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | |'. `\ | | | icq: 5483808 | | ;"""/ / | | | | | smk ) /_/| |.-------.| | mobile: 0410-728-389 | | ' `-`' " " | Berkeley, New South Wales, AU | ------------------------------------------------------------------ linux user:267497 * MDK 9.1 * PC/Mac/Linux/Networking/Consulting machine no:194239 * RH 7.3 * Sales - Service - Support - Tutor ------------------------------------------------------------------ ** This messages was composed on a 100% Microsoft free computer ** Apathy Club meeting this Friday. If you want to come, you're not invited. -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
